ECE330 Linear Systems Analysis  Fall 2001   

Professor Akbar Sayeed		Teaching Assistant Chris Swickhamer 
3617 Engineering Hall
265-4731
akbar@engr.wisc.edu		cmswickh@students.wisc.edu	
Office Hours: 1:00-2:30TR, 
              or by appointment

Discussion section:  4-5:30pm Wednesdays in 2345 Engr. Hall

Text:	S. Haykin and B. Van Veen, Signals and Systems, Wiley 1999.

Grading:	Homework	10%	assigned approximately weekly
		Exam 1	25%	5:30pm  Wednesday, October 24, 2001 
		Exam 2	25%	5:30pm  Monday, December 3, 2001 
		Final Exam	40%	7:25pm Wednesday, December 19, 2001 

The two lowest homework scores will be dropped when determining your final
grade.  Late homework will not be accepted for any reason.

Participation will include attendance and working as part of a team on
problems given in class.

		Outline

	1.  Introduction (Sections 1.1-1.8)
		Continuous and discrete-time signals
		Operations on signals
		Properties of signals
		Elementary signals
		Continuous- and discrete-time systems
		Interconnections of systems
		System Properties
	2.  Time Domain Representations for Linear Time Invariant Systems (Sections 2.1-2.4)
		Convolution
		Properties of convolution
		Difference and differential equations - characterizing solutions
	3.  Fourier Representations of Signals (Sections 3.1-3.6)
		Discrete time periodic signals - the discrete time Fourier series
		Continuous time periodic signals - the Fourier series
		Discrete time nonperiodic signals - the discrete time Fourier transform  
                Continuous time nonperiodic signals - the Fourier transform
		Properties of Fourier representations
	4.  Applications of Fourier Representations (Sections 4.1-4.7)
		Frequency response from time-domain system descriptions
		Fourier transform representations for periodic signals
		Convolution and modulation revisited - mixing periodic and nonperiodic signals
		The Fourier transform representation for discrete-time signals
		Sampling continuous-time signals
		Reconstruction of continuous-time signals from samples
	5.  The Laplace transform (Sections 6.1-6.5)
		Definition
		Convergence
		Properties
		Inversion
		Solving Differential Equations
		Transform Analysis of Systems